What’s Current: Top UK government official calls for crime to be recorded by sex, not ‘gender identity’

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  • A top U.K. government official has called for an end to recording male offenders as female in national crime statistics. U.K. Home Secretary Priti Patel has ordered her office to begin working on a new procedure for officers to record the sex of criminals.
  • Women politicians in Japan, both candidates and elected officials, report frequent sexual harassment. A survey of 1,247 female local assembly members revealed that 57.6 per cent said they had been sexually harassed by voters, supporters or other assembly members.
  • The U.S. State Department has issued the first American passport with an “X” gender marker on their travel document, rather than male or female. 
  • Feminists in South Korea are boycotting Netflix’s popular series Squid Game on the grounds that its portrayals of female characters are misogynistic.
Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve Gluck is a writer and advocate for women's sex-based rights and creator of Women's Voices, an audio library dedicated to bringing awareness to feminist texts and speeches.